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On a recent stroll along a line of waving children and beaming mothers, she ac- cepted the standard limp flowers from a few of the little girls and then reached over suddenly and tugged a surprised little boy's hat smartly down over his nose, to shrieks of delighted laughter from all. She looks so daz- zlingly young that people feel protec- tive about her when they think about the unceasing job she is taking on. They seem to be absolutely confident, though, that she will do it in her own way, and that it will be just right. ^ S generally happens in the midterm ^ of a Government when voters want to register disappointment over what has become of some of the high and shining election promises, the county-council elections that were run off the other day in England and Wales showed the expected irascible swing to Labour , especially in the northern cities. In London, the turn- out for Labour was unenthusiastic, but the slight twitch was enough to win it control of the Greater London Coun- cil, which is now dominated by the new-style hard left. In the nervous expectation that swingeing new taxes are going to be slapped onto already astronomically taxed houses in middle- class areas, many people are saying that they will have to pull out of Lon- don altogether and go elsewhere, though where would be any better-at least in the south-they do not say. The next ideological struggle for power in the Labour Party will be decided at the October conference but is beginning to warm up ferociously, watched with special anxiety by La- bour M.P.s. If Tony Benn, the strong, unexpected entry for the dep- uty leadership, succeeds in drumming up enough union support against the sitting occupant, Denis Healey, it will be goodbye to their hopes of mending the cataclysmic split caused by the de- cision of the special Wembley confer- ence early this year, which quashed the JUNE 8, 1981 traditional rights of the Parliamentary Party to elect a new leader and gave the largest share of the voting power to the unions. Mr. Healey is a big, tough politician who can lay about him doughtily in a fight, and it has alarmed his backers that until recently he has mostly stayed eloquently silent and left Mr. Benn to get the headlines and the good television slots-maybe not bad strategy, since Mr. Benn's public utterances are apt to scare off political moderates or strike them as frankly barmy. Mr. Healey has now opened his campaign with two for- midable attacks on the Benn faction- one in the House of Commons when he affirmed the Labour Party's support of the NATO deterrent, to the fury of the left-wing benches, and the other denouncing the left wing's breakaway on Ulster policy. Whoever wins in October will settle not only the future voting of the electoral college but the look of the next Labour Government. The dissatisfaction with both the big parties ought to favor the chances of the new Social Democrats, led by Roy Jenkins and his friends, who are still labelled in the press by the surely un- fortunate name of the Gang of Four, but they only dipped a toe here and there into the testing waters of the local elections and are an unknown quantity as yet. TONG queues are lining up at the L Whitehall Theatre to get seats for its sellout hit" Anyone for Denis?" No matter how they feel about Mrs. Thatcher and her policies, people are packing in to laugh their heads off at the deadly, beautiful impersonation of her that is the centerpiece of John Wells' wild farce, set in a Chequers that seems to have been taken over by Monty Python-the Denis of the title being Mr. Thatcher, trying to bear up loyally, with the help of golf and as decent an allowance of snorts of al- cohol as he can wangle, in the high- powered pandemonium to which his marriage has called him. J ohn Wells and Richard Ingrams are joint authors of "The Denis Thatcher Letters," addressed to a golfing and bar-prop- ping crony, which have long been a hilarious feature of the irreverent little fortnightly Private Eye. A collection of them, called "Dear Bill," was a best-seller last year, much appreciated by all but the stuffiest Tories, who thought them bad form. They give an affectionate, uproariously funny pic- ture of the hard-pressed correspon- dent, scribbling his view of the